Allegheny Cemetery : historical account of incidents and events connected with its establishment, charter and supplemental acts of legislation : reports of 1848 and 1857 : proceedings of corporators, June 21, 1873 : rules, regulations, &c. : list of officers, managers and corporators to date : remarks on the ornamentation and arrangement of cemeteries : funeral oration of Wilson McCandless, Esq., on Commodore Barney and Lieut. Parker : illustrated with sixteen photographic views
An 1873 Pittsburgh cemetery history printed by Bakewell & Marthens, recording the founding, charter, and rules of Allegheny Cemetery with photographic views for its corporators. The photographs are sepia albumen prints shown sideways on the page, with plain paths, bare trees, stone vaults, and a tall monument, offering a designer quiet material for nineteenth-century landscape and funerary architecture.
